Homes for Ukraine Scheme

Numbers in Lambeth under the Home for Ukrainians Scheme

20 September 2022

Your request

  1. how many guests and sponsors have been matched in your council under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme?
  2. if you answered yes to Q1, how many guests have been matched with sponsors under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme since 18 March 2022? I define the number of guests matched as instances a match took place rather than individuals ie if a family of 3 was matched with a sponsor that would count as 1.
  3. how many times has the council been contacted since 18 March 2022 by a sponsor needing to end the sponsorship relationship early?
  4. how many times has the council been contacted since 18 March 2022 by a guest needing to end the sponsorship relationship early?
  5. if you do not collect a breakdown of information between sponsor or guest contacting, it is fine to give a total of how many times the council has been contacted by any relevant party needing to end the sponsorship relationship early.
  6. how many times has the council provided overnight hotel accommodation after the sponsorship relationship has broken down? I define times as how many guests (classifying 1 family as 1 guest) have been offered hotel accommodation. I.E. if a guest family of 4 was offered 2 hotel rooms for 2 nights in June and 2 hotel rooms for August, that would count as 1 time.
  7. how many times has the sponsorship relationship broken down and the guest has been housed by a different sponsor?
  8. how many times has the sponsorship relationship broken down and the guest has been registered as homeless, with the Council’s statutory homelessness duties being applied?

Our response

Please note there are 7 parts to this request about the Homes for Ukraine Scheme.

Note that the data below has been taken from the government’s Foundry system which often contains duplicate data or a lag on numbers and the figures should be interpreted with caution.

  1. 726 guests and 383 sponsors have been matched, however only 349 guests have arrived to date
  2. 525 households/matches, only 209 households/matches have arrived to date. The discrepancy between the 525 households/matches and the 383 sponsors can be assumed to be down to discrepancies and admin errors in the government portal.
  3. we do not currently hold this data but can confirm there have been 8 early exits from sponsorships.  
  4. we do not currently hold this data but can confirm there have been 8 early exits from sponsorships. 
  5. of the 8 sponsorship breakdowns, 4 were offered hotel accommodation while a rematch sponsor was identified
  6. of the 8 sponsorship breakdowns, 6 have been rematched with new sponsors.
  7.  of the 8 sponsorship breakdowns, 1 family was housed under statutory homeless duties.